Quotes:Goldstücker, Theodor

Zirkoff, Boris

Goldstücker, Theodor. German Orientalist, b. of Jewish parents at Königsberg, Jan. 18, 1821; d. in London, March 6, 1872. Engaged in Oriental studies at Univ, of Bonn, under von Schlegel and Lassen. In 1842, went to live for three years in Paris, and assisted Burnouf in his writing. Strongly influenced in his career by H. H. Wilson and readily accepted his invitation to come to England and assist him in a new ed. of his Sanskrit Dictionary. Appointed, 1852, Prof, of Sanskrit in Univ. College, London. Was one of the founders of the Sanskrit Text Society. As Literary Remains some of his writings were published in two vols. (1879), but his papers were left to the India Office.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 530